The Pilgrim Hawk Quotes

“Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.”
― Glenway Wescott, The Pilgrim Hawk

“People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.”
― Glenway Wescott, The Pilgrim Hawk

“La juventud persiste hasta mucho después de que uno ha dejado de ser joven. El amor por la vida permanece indefinidamente, con menos probabilidad de ser amado, menos habilidad de amar, y con el aguijón de la pasión tan acuciante como siempre. El solterón envejecido no es tan distinto de un viejo halcón.”
― Glenway Wescott, The Pilgrim Hawk

“Back you fly to your perch, ashamed as well as frustrated. Life is almost all perch. There is no nest; and no one is with you, on exactly the same rock or out on the same limb. The circumstances of passion are all too petty to be companionable.”
― Glenway Wescott, The Pilgrim Hawk

“In marriage, insult arises again and again; and pain has to be not only endured, but consented to; and the amount of forgiveness that it necessitates is incredible and exhausting.”
― Glenway Wescott, The Pilgrim Hawk

“Perhaps those two things, imaginary death and hopeless desire, always lie close together in one’s mind, foolishly interchangeable.”
― Glenway Wescott, The Pilgrim Hawk

“For alcohol is a God, as the Greeks decided when it was first introduced from the East, although a God of vengeance.”
― Glenway Wescott, The Pilgrim Hawk

“Whatever has been kept secret, damped in ashes, smothered and contemptible, begins to come out and for the average man there is no harm in it.”
― Glenway Wescott, The Pilgrim Hawk